Улаанбаатар
National Program approved
Society
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/.
At its meeting on May 12, the Cabinet approved the National Program ‘Social
Protection of health workers’.
The program
reflects 46 actions in four directions: improving working environment and
conditions and protecting their health; to continuously improving their skills; increasing actual income and raising motivation to work; and support ing evidence-based decision making on the social protection and expanding collaboration of the parties.
Within the
program that will be implemented in 2019-2023, stage by stage measures will
be taken in regard with solving issues of housing, working conditions, training
and labor safety of workers of health sector.
In Mongolia,
there are over 52 thousand health workers, of whom 93 percent work in health
sector. Of total health workers, 82 percent are women.
